How Asia is celebrating the year of the snake - China expects nine billion trips to be undertaken during holiday period ...

Celebrated across Asia and beyond, it marks the start of a new year based on the cycles of the moon rather than the Gregorian calendar, when the majority of the United States and ...

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Lunar New Year celebrations are coming up, marking the beginning of the year of the snake. What to know about the holiday how ...

From Beijing to Hanoi and Moscow, the holiday — known as the Spring Festival in China, Tet in Vietnam and Seollal in Korea — is a major festival celebrated by diaspora communities around the world.

Lunar New Year traditions vary across and within countries ... children receive red envelopes as blessings from their relatives. In Southeast Asia, dragon dances, believed to bring good luck ...

This year’s Lunar New Year celebration, or Asia Fest, drew an estimated attendance of 200, including 60 kids, Feb. 8 at ...

Lunar New Year festivals and prayers are marking the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and farther afield.

A dragon is held up by performers from the Chinese American Association of Minnesota Chinese Dance Theater while they perform the Dragon Dance during a Lunar New Year celebration at Asia Mall in ...

As several Asian nations gear up to celebrate the lunar new year, families are preparing to partake in the unique traditions associated with the festival and welcome the year of the snake.

Join Asia Society Texas in welcoming the Year of the Snake with performances, art and craft activities, a Lucky Lunar Mission, and food — all inspired by Lunar New Year traditions across Asia!